Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c23.s5.t11.2

c23.s5.t11.2

These data show the cost of the iron both in its crude and malleable state and Captain, now Colonel Presgrave’s report gives the latter so fair a character that it may be useful to follow up that report by another obtained from the Calcutta Mint on some pieces of *Jowli* and *Ageriya* iron which were wrought up to the state of English bar iron—and submitted to trial—the substance of the report is as follows: